Crawfordsville Review, Crawfordsville, Montgomery County, 6 August 1892 — Page 3

WORSE THAN QUAY

CARTER, PRESIDENT HARRISON'S CHAIRMAN.

lueationnble Triinsuction of the Mitiinger

,of the Republican —What the People of Ioivu uiid Nebraska Think

jof tlie Man Who is nt the Helm of the }G. O. P.

President Harrison lias not been very |jticces8ful in liis selections of chairman Ml) manage his campaign. He first seJljjicted W. J. Campbell, of Illinois, to cad the national Republican commit-

But Senator Vest, in a speech in senate, exposed Campbell as a lobbyand a hireling of the beef tru8t. This exposure drove Campbell out of the committee. Then Thomas H. Carter, of Montana, was chosen by President Harrison to fill the place left vacant by Campbell's retirement.

Carter's record was not known in Washington, but some of his victims in Iowa have given to the public some startling inside history of the man who is to conduct the campaign for the' 'grand old party of morality."

It is said that Harrison is worried over the damaging disclosure of the questionable transaction of his late land commissioner and campaign manager, but he does not feel it prudent to make Carter resign.

Two resignations from the committee •within a month would be disastrous to the party.

The Omaha World-Herald publishes a special from Tekamah, Neb., which says:

Thomas H. Carter, once Mr. Harrison's commissioner of the general land office, now the manager of Mr. Harrison's boom, may not remember the people of Burt county, but they remember him. There is a host of able-bodied men in Tekamah who have been hoping many years that the opportunity would come when they could punish Carter. Republicans here who know him are indignant that he should be placed at the head of the national committee.

About twelve years ago "Tom" Carter appeared in this vicinity in the capacity of book agent, manager for R. T. Root, of "Foot prints of Time" fame.

Soon after his arrival Carter engaged Shrewd men. and began operations by making a personal canvass of the town, procuring the names of all the influential citizens, whether they would aocept the book on delivery or not. Then he "would show in a confidential way to unsuspecting citizens that he had sold twent-five or thirty books in a single day, upon which there was a profit of $2 each. At the same time his men, too, were getting in effective work about the "money to be made." Mr. Carter would then explain that he had territory to sell.

Farmer* Itobbed of Their All.

Many farmers were taken in and induced to deed their farms for territory and never realized a dollar in .the venture. Those who deeded away their farms in in this county were Fr mk Pratt, eighty acres Moses Clark, 1 (50 acres Daniel Morrison (an old man, 1 GO acres Rufus Bates, 120 acres: Marion Heath, eighty acres: H. V. B. Gibson, eighty acres "Rube" Lee, liis homestead John Creagon, furniture store Clint Smith, personal property M. Brown, $400 cash. Many others bought territory for laud, cash and town property. In some manner the property was deeded to Root, who became an "innocent" purchaser. Today A. G. Davis, Frank Roth and H. C. Sawtelle, formerly of Burlington, la., own and are living on about 2,00'l .acres of this land out of which Carter traded the farmers.

Republicans as well as Democrats are frank to express their opinions of Harrison's best man, and say that if cunning and questionable methods will win the campaign, then Harrison will be elected.

Carter Oin'c Democrat.

Carter was a Democrat when here, but he told friends lie was going to Montana to get into politics, and inasmuch as there was nothing there for a Democrat he was going to drop into the grand old party. He dropped in.

Judge Isaac Gibson, when asked what he knew of T. H. Carter, replied: "I know he ruined a great many good citizens, financially, among whom was my son, now in California. Carter induced my son to believe there was a fortune in the sale of the book 'Footprints of Time,' and sold him territory in Montana, taking a deed to the young man's farm, all he had. The venture proved bad, and my son was completely broken up financially.'' "Do you know of others who bit at Carter's bait?" the judge was asked. "Oh, yes," was the reply. "He got Frank Pratt's fine farm north of Tekamah, old man Morrison's farm and Rufus Bates' quarter section in the same neighborhood.-'

I'ouutl Victim*.

J. P. Latta, president of the First National bank, asked in regard to tne mo lods employed by T. H. Carter, wliLi in this country, said: "Carter first came here as a canvasser for the book 'Footprints of Time' and was head agent for B. T. Root, the publisher of the book. He made a few days' 6ales, then learned the names of property holders who had mortgages covering their lands for one-fourth or one-third its value and were unable to meet their obligations. He would then open his books, showing the sales and enonnouj profits in the book, and almost invariably get a deed to the farms of his vic

tim in oxchango for tho right to sell tho book in a speoified territory." "Doc" Bene, a farmer living north of Tekamah, where a large tract of this land lies which lias been won from the unwary granger, said: "1 had a talk with Lew Highley on this very subject some days ago and he told me just how this man Carter worked him into the "Footprints of Time." Highley was mortgaged on a small amount of property and Carter advanced him money with which to pay off the mortgages and buy him a new suit of clothes and took the property in exchange for a part of Kansas, a sort of a patent right. Highley after a time gave up and returned here, beating his way on the railroad, not having the money to pay his fare."

^\hat Iowatis Say of Carter.

A special from Burlington, la., to the the Chicago Herald says: The greatest amount of interest is taken among the citizens of Burlington in the appointment of Thomas H. Carter as chairman of the Republican national committee, and the drift of comment is not all favorable to the Montana man. He was a resident of this city for eight or ten years, and in that time joined an alliance with one T. R. Root, a book publisher, which did not tend to elevate him in the estimation of the public. Root came to Burlington some eighteen years ago and started up the publishing business, employing methods of disposing of books and canvassing territory that were, to say the least, questionable, and to this day there are farmers and country merchants all over Iowa and Nebraska who hold bitter thoughts against Root et. al. for the manner in which, as they claim, they were "taken in."

It is stated that Root's method was to persuade his victims to buy county rights to sell a book called "Footprints of Time," taking a mortgage on the purchaser's farm, dwelling, store or stook of goods, as the case might be, one of tho considerations being a large quantity of books.

As a general rule the mortgage came duo without a corresponding income from the sale of books and the mortgage was foreclosed. No extension of time was allowed and many a poor farmer or country merchant saw his home or land or stock of goods pass from him. Great indignation was caused, and it is said that Root was contantlyon his guard against personal injury. Carter was faithful to Root throughout these deals, and although but an employe, it is said, knew of and assisted his "employer in the business.

It is stated that Carter expressed himself dissatisfied with Root's methods and that as soon as he (Carter) had made a little money he-would quit and go west. This he did about the time Root closed up his book business. This was about ten years ago. Ho purchased a small law library and went to Helena, where lie was shortly afterward admitted to bar. While in Burlington Carter was a rabid Democrat-and.took a lively interest in political matters.

Upon arrival at Helena he found that the great majority of the ]eople of Montana were Republicans .and Roman Catholics. He joined the Republican party, allied himself to the Roman Catholic parish and soon became very popular among tlie-young Republicans and Roman Catholics of that state. By his sharp, pushing skill in political matters he soon won for himself a prominence that marked him for political preferment.

The result ^was his election to congress as a delegate and then as senator. He again ran as senator in 1S90, but was defeated. Emissaries of the Democratic party in Montana were sent to this city in tliat year to hunt up Mr. Carters record, it is- supposed, to use against him in the campaign.

What a It."venueTariff Would Do.

Repeal the McKinley law and bring the tariff to a revenue basis, and these trusts, the children of "protection,'" would go out of existence:

The iron and steel trust. The coal trust. The ax trust. The barbed wire trust. The biscuit and cracker trust. The bolt and nut trust. The boiler trust. The boot and shoe trust. The borax trust. The broom trust. The brush trust. The button trust. The carbon candle trust. r'1,"The cartridge, trust. The casket and burial goods trust. The castor oil trust. The celluloid trust. The cigarette trust. The condensed milk trust. The copper ingot tru-t. The copper sheet trust. The cordage trust. The crockery trust,' •. The cotton duck rust. The cotton seed oil trust. The cot ion thread trust. The, electric supply trust. The envelope trust. The flint glass trust. The fork and hoe trust. The fruit jar rust. The galvanized iron and steel trust. The glove trust. The harrow trust. The harvester trust. The hinge trust. The indurated liber trust. The lead trust. The leather board trust. The lime trust. The linseeu oil trust. The lithograph trust, The locomotive tire trust. The marble trust. The match trust. The morocco leather trust. The oatmeal trust. The oilcloth trust. The paper bag trust.

The pitch trust. The plate glass trust. The pocket cutlery trust. The powder trust. Tho preserves trust. The pulp trust. The rice trust. The rubber gossamer trust. The rubber general trust. The safe trust. The salt trust. The sandstone trust. The sanitary ware trust.. The sandpaper trust. The sjish, door and blind trust. The saw trust. The school book trust. The school furniture trust. The sewer pipe trust. The shot and lead trust. The skewer trust. The smelters trust, The snath trust. The soap trust. The soda water machinery trust. The spool, bobbin and shuttle trust. The sponge trust. The starch trust. The merchant steel trust. The steel rail trust. The store board trust. The straw board trust. The structural steel trust. The sugar trust. The teazel trust. The tinned plate trust. The tombstone trust. The trunk trust. Tlie tube trust. The type trust. The umbrella trust. The vapor stove trust. The wall paper trust. v. The watch trust. The wheel trust. The whip trust. The window glass trust. The wire trust. The wood screw trust. The wool hat trust. The wrapping paper trusts. The yellow pine trust. These are not all the trusts in the country by any means. They are merely the list of one hundred prepared by Congressman Warner for the New York World, and cited by Senator Vest in his crushing reply of June 28 to Senator Hale's resolution extrolling the effects of protection on industry and wages. Every one of the hundred is the result of a tariff—a creature of McKinleyism. Under a tariff for revenue only these trusts would be broken, domestic competition compelled, more goods produced, more men employed and higher wages paid. To quote Congressman Warner, who considers each of the trusts in detail, showing the amount of the tariff tax and how it protects the trusts in their plunder of the people:

First—These combines, covering as they do many great brandies of protected manufacture, and affecting many others, raise the price of manufactured goods, so that the consumer gels less for the same amount of money. It is generally the case also that a large proportion of the concerns which have combined together are those which can not manufacture the manufactured goods as economically as the others. The ordinary course has been to pay such a certain price for remaining idle, leaving all of the product to be made at manufactories which can produce it most cheaply. While, instead of returning this benefit in cheaper goods to the public and to wage-earners in other industries, the combine keeps up the price not merely to afford exorbitant profit to the plants still kept at work, but to pay to tlie idle manufactories the bonus agreed upon for their remaining non-productive.

Second—Tlie object of -a, trust combine is to make large profits on a limited product. If successful, therefore, tlie members of a trust make up by the high rate of their profits for the smallness of their sales and they are, therefore, just as well off as though by selling goods more cheaply they made larger sales. It is the amount of goods to be manufactured and not the profit that the employer is to make out of each item that determines the demand for labor and wages lie must pay. A trust combine in a protected industry is, therefore, an arrangement by which, government keeping out foreign competition, our manufacturers take advantage of this fact, and, making our people pay enough more for the few goods they are able to buy, keep profits as large as they would have been from larger sales at a more reasonable price, though they employ less labor and at lower wa/tes than otherwise. Trusts, therefore, enable manufacturers to make the most money by employing the least labor.

Third—The more closely organized the combine of employers in any one industry the better able are they to conquer their laborers in disputes as to wages or hours. Of course, employers could organize for this purpose even though not for the other. Late experience, however, has shown, as might have been expected, that combines originally formed to increase the price of goods or restrict production have been the most frequent foundation of a combine successfully to cope with labor organizations.

McKinleyism is the parent of hese trusts. McKinleyism must go.

Won with the Negro Votes.

For the benefit of the Republican papers in Indiana that have been trying to show that Harrison was not nominated by the negro delegates of the south, the following extract from The Freeman, the organ of the negro race in Indiana, is reproduced. The Freeman is published at Indianapolis by Barber Knox who was a delegate-at-large from Indiana to the Minneapolis convention. As Mr. Knox is a prominent colored man and was at Minneapolis in the interest of Harrison there is no doubt that what he says in his own paper is true. Here is what the Freeman in a recent issue said:

From some figures as to llie attendance at the Minneapolis convention, it is ascertained that there were 130 colored delegates at the convention at Minneapolis. These voted almost solidly for Harrison, and it is seen that he owes to their loyalty his renomination. They refused steadily to be bought over to the standard of any other candidate, and stood firmly for the chief executive. Such action can not fail to reward, and President Harrison in the event of his re-election, must not fail of reward these men whose conduct was noble and above suspicion. Without their votes he wo„uld not have been selected, and con-' sidering the question in this light we can see just what power the colored delegates possessed. They controlled things and

there is no doubt that they used their weighty Influence to the best advantage. Senator Walcott, of Colorado, got up In the Minneapolis convention and exhibited a list of 142 delegates which lie denounced as officeholders. As no one denied the statement, Walcott was no doubt accurate. Adding these 142 office holders to the 120 negroes we have 202 delegates, which if subtracted from 499, the number of votes necessary to nominate, leaves 237 Harrison delegates out of 999 which the convention contained. This shows exclusively that without the negro delegates of tlie south and the office holders of the north, Mr. Harrison would have received only 22 per cent, of the votes of the convention.

TARIFF IS A TAX.

Necessaries Used Dy the Poor:

DUTY— W

ART1CI.ES.

?i.

pa .(C 3 S

Average on thirteen articles ad valorem duty

Blankets valued at 30c per lb or less, perlb 16£ Blankets valued at 40c per lb or less, per lb 22 Blankets valued at 50c per lb or less, perlb 33 Boots and shoes, leather Boots and shoes, rubber Buttons, agate Buttons, ivory, vegetable ivory, bone or horn Bottons, pearl or shell, per line button measure, per gross... (A line, button measure, is 1-40 of an inch.) Braces, suspenders, etc Borax, per lb 5 Brooms and brushes Castor oil, per gal SO Chalk, colored or prepared Cheese, per lb 0 Carpets,"two-ply ingrain 14 Cloaks, woolen Cocoa matting, per sq yd 12 Clothing, ready made, cotton Clothing, ready made, woolen, per lb 40£ Corduroy, per sq yd 14 Cotton hose, per doz 50 '. Cloth, common, per sq yd 4@5 Hankerchiefs Dress goods, worsted, valued at 15c per yd and less, per yd... 7 Earthenware, common brown Earthenware, plain white porcelain Embroidery, cotton Eye glasses Fence wire, per lb 6-10 Fish, salted or smoked, per lb... Files, per doz 3o@$2 Fur hats Glassware, pressed Gloves, leather, per doz 1 00 Gloves, ladies, kid, per doz 3 25 Horse shoe nails, per lb 4 Pocket knives, per doz 12@$2 Table knives, per doz 10®$2 Linseed oil, per gal 32 Plush, wool Paper envelopes, per thousand... 25 Rice, cleaned, per lb 2 Women's hats

Average on forty-three articles ad valorem duty Luxuries Used by the Wealthy: Axminster, Wilton and Saxony carpets, per sq yd 60 Diamonds, dressed Hatter's plush, silks Demijohns, per lb .• 1 Mohair cloth Photographs Precious stones, all kinds Pearls Oil paintings Stained glass Watches, or parts of watches Water colors Steel engravings

Tlie I'oor Man's Free List.

Acorns. Asaf(etida. Ashes. Beeswax. Bones. Cat gut. Dandelion roots. Dried blood. Fish for bait. Glass, broken, and old glass. Grease. "/.V Hoofs. ... llorns. Ipecac. Joss sticks-. Leeches. Old junk. Hags, n. o. p. Saner kraut. Salted guts. Snails. Tobacco stems. Vaccine virus. Yams.

The Kich Man's Free List,

.Alnbaster statuary. Bronze. Books, in other than the English Ian gunge.

Brazilian pebbles. Cabinet woods, moliogany, rosewoods,etc. Diamonds uncut. Fossils. Furs, undressed. Fashion plates. Meershauiti. Musk. Mother of pearL Olives. Orchids. Shells of all kinds. Turtles. Wearing apparel of persons arriving in the United States or of citizens of the United Suites returning from Europe.

The protection crowd try to make the public believe that a high tariff can do wonders. It is claimed that protection increases wages and at the same time lessens tho cost of the manufactured article to the consumer. In other words, the greater the cost of production the less the cost to the consumer—a thing impossible and not in accordance with the facts.—Muncie Herald. -r

The protective tariff guns which were fired at Homestead, were heard all over the United States. The sound will continue to reverberate until the 8tli of November. After the noise of this great conflict passes away, the slain and crippled Republican office seekers will be found to exceed the slain of the Battle of tlie Wilderness.—Columbus Herald.

The lockout of Carnegie & Company, may be a scheme whereby they may attempt to control the labor vote by waiting some time and then concede their demands and conditions that they help elect the ticket of the robber party.— Decatur Democrat.

What is

Castoria is Dr. Samaei Pitcher's prescription for Infants and Children. It contains neither Opium, Morphine nor other Narcotic substance. It is a harmless substitute for Paregoric, Drops, Soothing Syrups, and Castor Oil.

It is Pleasant. Its guarantee is thirty years* use by Millions of Mothers. Castoria destroys Worms and allay& feverisliness. Castoria prevents vomiting Sour Curd* cures Diarrhoea and Wind Colic. Castoria relieves teething troubles, cures constipation and flatulency. Castoria assimilates the food, regulates the stomach, and bowels, giving healthy and natural sleep. Cas« toria is the Children's Panacea—the Mother's Friend.

Castoria.

"Cutoita Is an excellent medicine for children. Mothers have repeatedly told me of its good effect upon their children."

DR. G. C. OSGOOD, Lowell, Mass.

Castoria is the best remedy for children of which I am acquainted. I hope the day is not far distant when mothers will consider the real interest of their children, and use Castoria instead of the variousquack nostrums which are destroying their loved ones, by forcing opium, morphine, soothing syrup and other hurtful agents down their throats, thereby Bending them to premature graves."

Da. J. F. KracOTELor, Conway, Ark.

-THE-

Yandalia

LINK

NORTH BOUND.

No. 52 Mail 8:16 a. No. 54 Express ..6:18 p.m Express 2:30 p. in.

SOUTH HOUND

No. 51 Express No. 53 Mail Kxpreas

...9:44 a. iri 5:i!0 p. 8:11 p.

Good connection made at Terre^Haute'l.for the South and South-west. Trains Irun through to' St. Joseph, Mich., making good .connection with C. fe W. M. (or Michigan points.

J. C. BDTCHINSON, Agent.

Big

CM'dnl, Cincinnati, tiicay & St. Louis R'y. Short Line, East anil West

Route

WAGNER SLEEPING OARS

On night trains connecting with Vestibule Tralni at liloomington and Peoria to and from Missouri Hlver, Denver and Pncillc Const

Indianapolis, Cincinnati, Springfield and Colum bus to and from Eastern and Seaboard Cities.

Address W. Michie, agent for further partlculnre. JOHN B. CARSON, JAMEo BARKER Gen. Manager. 1. A., Chicago Chicago

TRAINS AT CKAWFORDSVII.LE.

ST0IV.° wE!,t* OOINQ BAST No !)—Mail, No 8—Mail, ....Srlipin No,—Mail (d). 12:39am I 12-Mail (d)...l :55»n XT° },'~£|R|1 l:88pin No 18-Mnil ,...L:08pin No 3—Exprees...6:40pm No 2—Exprcfl8...9:15 a»i

No. 3—Night oxprofiB i.«. No. 5—Fast mail I'.J'g

No. 43 Local Accommodation ..!..!!,*!():lri a. m! AH trains stop at Linden, Ladoga and Roachdale. Local ireight carry passengers.

REMOVED.

rhompsonl&s Cates

Have removed their stock of New and Second Hand Goods to the room formerly occupied by "Watson & 1'ursel, just south of their" old location..

GO gEE

LAW OTI

"i rnn

Castoria.

Castoria is so well adapted to children that I recommend it as superior to any prescription known to me."

R. A. ARCHER, H. D.,

Ill So. Oxford St., Brooklyn, V. 7.

Our physicitfW in the children's depart* ment have spokff *1ghly of their experience in their outstth. practice with Castoria, and although wo only have among our medical supplies what is known as regular products, yet wo are free to confess that the merits of Castoria has woe ua to look with favor upon It."

UNITED HOSPITAL ADD DISPENSARY, Boston, Mass. AIAKN C. SMITH, Pres.,

The Centaur Company, TT Murray Street, New York City.

SIMPLE EFFECTIVE. WONDERFUL

G. E.ttOBINSON, Agent.

MONON ROUTE

^g)T IOUISVIUOEW ALBANY'S CHICA6O Rr.fgh-

i.. N. A. fc C. MONON. •VOKTH BOUND.

No. 4—Night express No. f—Fast mail !"!.l:30p. No. 44, Local Accommodation p." m!

SOUTU BOUND.

WEST

VNSASCITY R.R. OYER LEAF ROUTE'

First. Class Night and Day Serviwbetween

TOLEDO, OH IO,

A N D(

ST. LOUIS, MO.

FREE CHAIR CARS DAY TRAINS—MODERN EQUIPMENT THROUGHOUT.

VESTIBULED SLEEPING CARS

ON NIGHT TRAINS.

83-MEALS SERVED EN ROUTE, any hour. DAY OR NIOHT, at moderate cost.

Ask for tickets via Toledo, St. Louis & Kansas City R. R.

CLOVER LEAF ROUTE.

For further particulars, call on nearest Agent of the Company, or address

C. C. JENKINS. Coaeral

Highest TESTIMONIALS.

r«ii«Dinr igent, TOLEDO, OHICX

BETTON'S.

A POSITIVE CURE FOR

At DrutfslHtA or Moiled on ttccelpt of i'rlcu. WINKELMANN & BROWN Drug Co. i'rop». Baltimore.

KOPFALINE

forms of henilnnhn

iCCOUN-

In"

CORRESPONDENTS

RAPID

ENGROSSING

FOR CATALOCUE.

TCOMIllNATION SAFETIES, .,tl, lluu*r llrel

#\\\|///2VL JFFFRUTFK

ibi«

TAICX.

or* run.

50c.

BOX.

TI10 Great German lU'iuliichc Cure will euro nervous, sick, innlariitl nnil all

Fooplf who have differed, any

Poop]* wll.

FOR

It is a Gml's blPeniiiR to mankind, l'lcasant to use. No bud Wri efVoctH. Cure certain ami 11 irk. For pule liv drm-'sriets, or by mail 23 cents. WIXKEI.JIAXS iff

HEADACHE

IIROW.X l)lU'(ii •«.. isAi/rxJIORII. .MR.

SPENCERIAN STEEL PENS

ARE THE BEST

FOR

EXPERT WRITERS

EVfTTRmMP/iPTART a. a tt tva «*J? VIGORS

lti

TiiHTu 2

SOLO BIT STATIONERS EVERYWHERE.

Samples FREE on receipt of return postage, a canti.

SPEHCENUN

FOR

MEN ONLY!

|For I0ST or FAILING JCANH00D General and NEKVOUSDEBrtTTS"' [Weakness of Body and Hind. Effect^

STRENGTH

«-loeh, Doy*'« Uirla* II8 00 ..|| HO

1 "i if* sioo 21 (M) 40 (K. 24 OU

Hobmt,

2d*lacb« B*11

Kob„*

N 40 UU

2saimsr ®M0«h, vnetnapjllooo. 40

iSJJR:: iggg

E. C. MEACHAM ARMS CO..

ST. LOUIS,MO.

®J"'|S'h«,'",W,f.raUKTKLoJgU OHOAas* piBTaSSnSfr Abwlutelr naMIIng IIUHK from Md[££• Descriptive Book, explutUoa and fr^T

ERIE MEDICAL CO., BUFFALO N.